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Valério Romão was born in France in 1974. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Nova University of Lisbon and has published four novels: Autismo (2012), O da Joana (2013), Cair para dentro (2018) and O Desfufador – Vol I Contágio (2025); three short story collections: Facas (2013), Da Família (2014), Dez razões para aspirar a ser gato (2015); two plays: A Mala (2015), Irina, Macha, Olga (2016); and one […]
Ana Cláudia Santos was born in 1996 and is a Portuguese poet whose work explores the mystery of life and death. She is the author of “Meia-Vida” (2020), “O Espectro” (2024, Casa Florbela Espanca Editions), and “Ultra-Passado” (2025, Ofélia), and the curator of the anthology “Fábricas de Novas Almas” (2023, Caminho das Palavras). In 2021, […]
Tânia Ganho was born in 1973 and for the past twenty-five years has devoted herself to writing and translating fiction. She has translated authors such as Alice Walker, Amor Towles, Annie Ernaux, Chimamanda Adichie, Elizabeth Strout, Hervé Le Tellier, Leïla Slimani, Maya Angelou, Siri Hustvedt, Toni Morrison, and Yukio Mishima, among many others. She is […]
Anelise Chen is the author of SO MANY OLYMPIC EXERTIONS (Kaya Press), a novel about a former swimmer grappling with failure and why to keep going. It was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her new memoir, CLAM DOWN, about a woman who turns into a clam, was published in June 2025 […]
Chet‘la Sebree is the author of the poetry collections Blue Opening; Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Mistress, nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her debut essay collection TURN (W)HERE: A Geography of Home is forthcoming in 2026. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and has been published […]
Lauren Christensen is an editor at the New York Times Book Review, where she covers literary fiction, memoir and other genres; and the author of “Firstborn.”
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo is a writer and editor living in London. She is the author of the poetry pamphlet Intellectual Property and the forthcoming Attention-Seeking Behaviour, a hybrid text on pathological lying and the technologies of lie-detection. She has been on the editorial team of Granta magazine since 2023.
Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at […]
Kristi Maxwell is the author of nine books of poems, including Wide Ass of Night (Saturnalia Books, 2025); Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize; Realm Sixty-four, editor’s choice for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize; and Hush Sessions, editor’s choice for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She’s the Director of Creative Writing […]
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, translator, and university lecturer based in London. Her book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe (The New Press) was named a 2025 LitHub‘s Most Anticipated Book and featured in The New York Times Book Review and NPR. Her articles appear regularly in The Nation, In These Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and […]